Analysis Of Western Suppression Of Passions

Western Suppression of Passions (Choice B) Friedrich Nietzsche testified that the Western world has lost its desire to strive for the passions in each person’s life. These humans no longer loved their work. Instead of working for things that matter and make life worth living, Nietzsche testified that the West had become so costumed with philosophy and calming the fears in order to live in safety. Westerners work to make money and maintain a certain lifestyle. Nietzsche states that “’What killed Greek tragedy?’ is Greek philosophy” (Mitchell 328). By looking at the past, present, and the future Western world, Nietzsche’s idea that the West had suppressed the passions becomes quite apparent through considering at art, leisure activities, and

This time was filled with a great amount of fear as well as optimism. However, like Friedrich Nietzsche would agree, the West has lost its passion. People became increasingly focused on starting a democracy that they lost their love of their passions. Artists, like Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, were the impressionists of the 11th century in America ("American Art: History of Fine Arts in America" 4). These artists were consumed with their art and other artists’ art, in addition to the overall cultural growth in the nation. As the age of art was flourishing in the States, leisure activities often included going to the theatre and opera. Moreover, familial relationships began to lose importance as more and more people had hired help to assist with the raising of children as well as sending children off the boarding school. These Westerners let other people raise their children so that they could have more time for work and the few leisure and artful activities they enjoyed. As seen in the beginning of the United States, it is clear to see how the present state of American follows Nietzsche’s theory of Western oppression of

Although Nietzsche lived in an extremely different time than the modern Western world, his ideas transfer well into the future. The man of the 2200, and beyond, he most likely will continue to be driven to work, over his drive to spend time enjoying art and his family. Nietzsche’s philosophy would continue to reprimand this man for not spending enough time at home and not spending enough time doing the things he wanted to do in life. The aesthetic hearer needs to crush the theoretical man and reestablish the society in a positive and artistic way. Nietzsche’s idea of the overman comes into play: “An overman as described by Zarathustra, the main character in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is the one who is willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity . . . An overman is then someone who has a life which is not merely to live each day with no meanings when nothing in the past and future is more important than the present, or more precisely, the pleasure and happiness in the present, but with the purpose for humanity” (Nietzsche 's Idea of "the Overman"